That’s right. I’m talking about the big E word… Exercise!Remember that motion is life, and life is about motion We are created to move around constantly.Exercise increases weight loss by building muscle thus stimulating your metabolism.
Muscle is the most metabolically active tissue in your body.Increasing the number of active muscle cells improves your ability to burn up that unwanted fat. We are not designed to just sit around being couch potatoes. On average, our ancestors walked 9 miles a day. Their physical fitness was the equivalent to today’s Olympic athletes. They had no choice. It was be fit or die!
In today’s world, our choice is to be fat, and live a life filled with social problems, emotional problems and physical ailments leading to diseases such as cancer and heart disease.Statistics show that 50% of people in the U.S. have heart attacks. By following a green weight loss program, you are able to lose weight naturally and permanently. Exercise is a crucial part of living a “green” lifestyle. Exercise should be performed with a wide variety of activities. Your goal is functional movement that not only makes you look younger, but will also protect you from injuries.Recent studies show that when the heart is worked at different intervals, it is at its healthiest. This includes endurance exercises such as long distance running, anaerobic exercises such as weight lifting and cross training exercises such as sports. Here are three simple strategies to use exercise while working to enhance your metabolism:
- Take a half an hour walk every day.
- Take the stairs instead of the elevator.
- Buy a pilates video and start doing it 4 times a week.
- Do interval training when running. Go fast for 1 minute and slow down for a couple minutes. Bump up the intensity and do it again.
Not only can the fat melt away, but your health will drastically improve when you exercise. Especially in the high stress world that we live in you can make a huge improvement to your quality of life.
Dr Charles Livingston is a structure/function doctor who specializes in advanced nutrition and weight loss. He is also the author and creator of http://www.greenlifeweightloss.com which teaches healthy "green" principles for shedding weight fast naturally.




